“This has been a 30-plus year journey,” Congresswoman Jackson Lee declared. “We had to take a different approach. We had to go one by one to members explaining this does not generate a check.” Congresswoman Jackson Lee said this week that there’s now enough votes in the House for passage of the historic piece of legislation.
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If you have yet to get a tax refund or have waited hours for an IRS representative to talk on the phone, you are not unusual — and the IRS is aware of this.
United Airlines is allowing unvaccinated employees to come back to work after adopting the most stringent COVID-19 vaccine regulations of any US carrier.
The Jussie Smollett drama came to a startling finale Thursday when a Chicago judge sentenced him to five months in prison for concocting a “disgraceful” hate crime hoax, leading the actor to yell out in protest, “I’m innocent!”
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Dr. Bridget had the vision of creating a book that inspired and educated others about cannabis and CBD through storytelling. Even though her background is highly focused in evidence-based medicine, what others find inspirational are the testimonies of everyday people, not the research numbers. Another motivation is that she knows sharing stories is a healing process for the author. “There is a lot of struggle, shame and guilt in the cannabis experience and being able to provide an opportunity for others to resolve their difficulties and celebrate their empowerment is meaningful for me as a physician and a life coach.”
While the world has been focused on the growing numbers of COVID-19 causalities, the media has somewhat ignored the long-term educational and economic impacts of the pandemic – especially for Black students. Although there has been some attention given to the disparities between Black Americans and other groups contracting the virus, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Black community will be recovering from the impact of COVID-19, health wise, economically, and educationally for at least the next two decades.
A group of eminent international human rights lawyers on Wednesday stated that they’ll petition the United Nations on behalf of Black refugees who’ve been discriminated against while attempting to flee Ukraine.
This week in Selma, Alabama, that story continues with North Carolina A&T State student Aigné Taylor. The senior, who is double majoring in political science and sociology, spent her spring break being a part of the 57th anniversary of one of the most pivotal events in American history.
A recent Washington Post story found that Black Americans donate a higher share of their wealth than their white counterparts – to the tune of around $11 billion each year. Given their cultural and educational importance to the Black community, HBCUs are the repository of much of these donations with a number of household names – and some you may not know – making big-dollar contributions to these institutions.